The Blu-ray.com Folding@Home team has become one of the top 200 teams in the shared-computing project, only one month after breaking into the Top 250. When not using their PS3s to watch Blu-ray movies, many forum members run the Folding@Home program preloaded on the machine. While you don't need a PS3 to contribute (the software works on any Windows, OSX, or Linux system), the awesome computing power of the console has contributed greatly to the team effort. Currently, the team has completed 22,287 work units, amassing 6,215,711 points for the program.
Folding@Home is a program run by Stanford University which utilizes shared computing in order to fold proteins. When these proteins fold incorrectly, serious illnesses like Alzheimer's, CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease, as well as many Cancers can form. By folding these proteins in a computer, and seeing the results, Stanford University is able to see the results, learn more about folding proteins, and hopefully one day find a cure.
To learn about Folding@Home, please visit their
home page. You can view our team progress
here. If you would like to join, either follow the directions
here for using your PS3, or download the software onto your home computer, following the directions provided. Make sure to enter our
Team Number: 56895 where prompted.
Current Top 10 of Team Blu-ray.com
- PaulB404 (388388 pts/1304 WUs)
- guidosarduche (315379 pts/1230 WUs)
- BradleyStorm (257556 pts/874 WUs)
- PowerSurg (178943 pts/600 WUs)
- drpayne (176958 pts/591 WUs)
- dialog_gvf (165708 pts/571 WUs)
- groovyone_PS3 (155062 pts/518 WUs)
- mtl007 (152670 pts/507 WUs)
- bluflu (150069 pts/506 WUs)
- FreddyFredd (140809pts/480 WUs)